Sentence examples for a functioning synagogue from inspiring English sources

"You're not allowed to sell a functioning synagogue," he said.

He was pleased to find a functioning synagogue nearby, although the average age of the congregants was, he says, "about 60".

As for Eldridge Street, this palatial Moorish synagogue has been under restoration for the better part of a generation, and the completion of the work is a genuine cause for celebration, all the more because this building, which was nearly lost, has been given new life as both a museum and a functioning synagogue.

There are a dozen functioning synagogues in Budapest, an annual Jewish summer festival heavily promoted across the city and numerous cultural organisations.

The last regularly functioning synagogue lacks a rabbi.

The neo-Classical Temple B'nai Israel, 213 South Commerce Street, opened in 1905, is the oldest functioning synagogue in Mississippi.

The Old-New Synagogue (Staronova Synagoga), Cervena 2, dates from the 13th century and is Europe's oldest functioning synagogue.

The previous night's Rosh Hashana service at the only other functioning synagogue in Cairo, Shaar Hashamayim, in the city's downtown, had nearly been canceled because they lacked a minyan — the 10 Jewish men needed for a service.

Besides being the only functioning synagogue in Brno, she said, Agudas Achim was the only operating synagogue in all of Moravia, the ancient Central European kingdom that makes up the eastern half of today's Czech Republic.

For him, going back to Kahal Shalom, which the United States Holocaust Museum calls the oldest functioning synagogue in Greece, feels like going home.

"Humanity is one and we are here to demonstrate that," Zeeshan Abdullah, one of the protest's organizers told a crowd of Muslim immigrants and ethnic Norwegians who filled the small street around Oslo's only functioning synagogue.